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Hospital readmission rates will soon impact Medicare reimbursements. While risk factors for readmission have been described for medical and elective surgical patients, little is known about their predictive value specifically in trauma patients.We retrospectively identified all admissions after trauma resuscitation to our urban level 1 trauma centre from 1/1/2004 to 8/31/2010. All patients discharged...
Unplanned hospital readmissions increase healthcare costs and patient morbidity. We sought to identify risk factors associated with early readmission in surgical patients.All admissions from a mixed surgical unit during 2009 were retrospectively reviewed and unplanned readmissions within 30 d of discharge were identified. Demographic data, length of stay, pre-existing diagnoses, and complications...
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